4.7 3DMark06 (Direct3D 9)

3DMark06 is one of the most used Direct3D 9 benchmark. It’s still interesting to have the scores for this benchmark.

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Score: 22379 (SM2: 8212, SM3: 11585, CPU: 5805) – ASUS ENGTX580

Score: 22162 (SM2: 8296, SM3: 11321, CPU: 5737) – EVGA GTX480

4.8 Aquamark 3 (Direct3D 9)

Aquamark 3 is a popular Direct3D 9 benchmark. Under Windows Vista or Seven, you have to install this patch. I posted the scores just for the fun because I don’t know if this tool is still representative of modern cards like GeForce GTX 500 / Radeon HD 6000…

9 Responses to “[Tested] ASUS ENGTX580 1536MB at Geeks3D Labs”

Some minor mistakes at the parts where you mention Asus Smartdoctor and at 4.5 Direct X SDK.

All this is tesselation is nice and cool, but the problem is that from all these benchmarks you can only actually play LP2 and Hawx and Hawx is running pretty nicely everywhere anyway.

Personally I am having my eyes turned at the 570 or 69XX since the 580 is too expensive for my taste and I am aiming for SLI anyway since I am upgrading from 5850 crossfire and just one card wouldn’t cut it. I will be CPU limited anyway even with the 570s, as were a couple of the tests in this review.

Excellent material in this review, but as mentioned by Psolord only two tests are playable games and we would like to see some more heavy game testing; IE. Crysis, Metro2033, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Supreme Commander 2 and so on.

the problem with real life gaming and benchmarks are really two different things Nvidia cards MIGHT SEEM be slower in a benchmark but what people Really need to remember is games as far back as i can rememeber even that crazy dos version of GTA is FRAME LIMITER when you play games all games are frame limited to 60fps MAX some are still on 30FPS a dvd is 25fps then you must remember ATI or AMD who ever you want to call them is does not work with every title some games need Physic’s or some other instruction that Nvidia can only do,Nvidia offer Compatabilitie
with every game, every application,so that been said there are many games you will get better performance out of because they written the game for Nvidia in mine or they need instruction sets that only Nvidia cards have, the hardware fact is they last far longer then any ATI card I have a TNT card that still works I use that card in a media server as for ATI cards back then no chance.